Merge Signs The Mountain Goats, The Extra Lens

This just might be the heyday of North-Carolina-based label Merge Records, with a roster that includes recent releases by Arcade Fire, Spoon, She & Him and Caribou, and a promising list of upcoming releases including those by Fucked Up and Superchunk. Now, the label has added two of John Darnielle’s projects, The Mountain Goats and The Extra Lens (formerly The Extra Glenns).

The Extra Lens is a collaboration between Darnielle, who is also the frontman of The Mountain Goats, and Franklin Bruno (Nothing Painted Blue, The Human Hearts). Merge reports that the latest album from The Extra Lens, Undercard, will be released Oct. 19. Check out the tracklist below:

1. Adultery
2. Crusierweights
3. Only Existing Footage
4. Communicating Doors
5. Programmed Cell Death
6. How I Left the Ministry
7. Some Other Way
8. Ambivalent Landscape Z
9. In Germany Before the War
10. Tug on the Line
11. Rockin’ Rockin’ Twilight of the Gods
12. Dogs of Clinic 17